Security is a critical concern for any information system. Security properties such as confidentiality, integrity and availability need to be enforced in order to make systems safe. In complex environments, where information systems are composed by a number of heterogeneous subsystems, each subsystem plays a key role in the global system security. For the specific case of access-control, access-control policies may be found in several components (databases, networksand applications) all, supposedly, working together. Nevertheless since most times these policies have been manually implemented and/or evolved separately they easily become inconsistent. In this context, discovering and understanding which security policies are actually being en...